One of the great untapped potentials within many organizations is how to identify and leverage strengths. Unfortunately, many individuals and organizations only focus on weaknesses. As business leaders, we are focused on bottom line growth: how to achieve it, how to manage it and how to maintain it. As leaders, we recognize that people areRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Opening Data, Sharing Stories: I read a lot this week about new sources of data being opened, and how people ar sharing their stories (but not necessarily their data) online. Alex Howard writes about an important development: The IRS will now allow people to download their own tax transcripts. Susannah Fox, of theRead… Read more »
It is time to move from circulating documents to visiting texts. Mark Foden The post Aphorism 99 appeared first on Public Strategist. Original post
Check out this article for some thoughts: Five Steps to Spark Company Innovation http://blog.globalbx.com/2014/01/14/five-steps-to-spark-company-innovation/ via @prismatic One idea I have seen work in Federal agencies is to: Invest in Team Building and Employee Recognition. It is amazing how creative people can get if they use tools to help stimulate creativity and innovation and how jazzedRead… Read more »
Linkydink is a lovely little service that does one thing very well. It allows people to add links to a group and for a daily list of the links collected to be emailed out to subscribers. It is run by Makeshift, a fantastic company in London that seems to churn out excellent little tools suchRead… Read more »
The Andrew Cuomo campaign account is now up to an astonishing $33.3 million dollars. Cuomo has amassed the largest war chest among all Governor’s in the nation. After Cuomo Governor Brown in California is a distant second with $10 million in his campaign account. Cuomo likes to portray himself as the man of the peopleRead… Read more »
In a network-exclusive Code for America mentor event, former White House CTO Aneesh Chopra, author of “Lean Startup” Eric Ries and O’Reilly Media’s Tim O’Reilly sat down for a conversation on open government. Even in his introduction, Chopra identified what he called “four levers to pull” for those in civic hackers and innovators in attendance.Read… Read more »
The firestorm over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s staff closing the world busiest bridge as political playback has ignited discussion over his political future. Surviving scandal has become a pastime for many in public office and until the public uses these events to begin discerning what they say about an individual’s core values, we willRead… Read more »
Many of you may have already seen this talk by Logan Laplante. In my opinion he nails the age old question of “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. When you think about it, his answer makes perfect sense but I’m pretty sure that none of us answered it with his responseRead… Read more »
By Megan Bensatte Communicating with the Public: A challenge for government If you work in government communications, you know that we often have a hard time getting our message across to the masses. While our concepts start off simple enough, the end product is weighed down with technical jargon, lawyer-like speak and far too manyRead… Read more »